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Architecture and Design For the Family in Britain, 1900-1970

Author : David Jeremiah

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 45,60 MB

Release : 2000-11-18

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9780719058899

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Drawing from archeology, history, town planning, and sociology, this study considers family homes and new neighborhoods, the products and plans for everyday life, and the family lifestyle. Information is presented chronologically and in terms of class. Chapters focus on specific periods of time between 1918 and 1969, as well as on issues like health, comfort, and happiness. Forty-nine illustrations and black and white photographs are featured. Distributed by Palgrave. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.



Architecture and Design For the Family in Britain, 1900-1970

Author : David Jeremiah

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,71 MB

Release : 2000-11-18

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780719058899

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This book tracks the complex and important relationship between the "ideal" and the "commonplace" in the social purpose of architecture and design intended for the family. Recognizing the importance of the 19th-century legacy and examining the cultural agenda to provide a better life, the study is defined by two major periods of national reconstruction. Core areas covered are family homes and new neighborhoods, the products and schemes for everyday life, and the housewife and family lifestyle.



Designing Modern Britain

Author : Cheryl Buckley

Publisher : Reaktion Books

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 36,56 MB

Release : 2007-10-01

Category : Design

ISBN : 1861894716

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British culture is marked by indelible icons—red double-decker buses, large oak wardrobes, and the compact sleekness of the Mini. But British industrial and product design have long lived in the shadows of architecture and fashion. Cheryl Buckley here delves into the history of British design culture, and in doing so uniquely tracks the evolution of the British national identity. Designing Modern Britain demonstrates how interior design, ceramics, textiles, and furniture craft of the twentieth century contain numerous hallmark examples of British design. The book explores topics connected to the British design aesthetic, including the spread of international modernism, the eco-conscious designs of the 1980s and 1990s, and the influence of celebrity product designers and their labels. Buckley also investigates popular nostalgia in recent times, considering how museum and gallery exhibitions have been instrumental in reimagining Britain’s past and how the heritage industry has fueled a growing trend among designers of employing images of British culture in their work. A thoughtful look at the aesthetic heritage of a nation that has left its footprint around the globe, Designing Modern Britain will be a valuable text for students and professionals in design.



Twentieth-century Britain

Author : F. M. Leventhal

Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Page : 676 pages

File Size : 28,33 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Foreign Language Study

ISBN :

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This encyclopedia contains some 500 articles, arranged alphabetically from "abortion" to "Yeats, William Butler." Levental (British history, Boston U.) chose the material partly to reflect his own interests in social and cultural history, the history of the labor movement, and in music and art, but did not attempt to impose a universal style on contributors and included entries related to most major other aspects of 20th century British history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



A History of the Future

Author : Peter J. Bowler

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 11,43 MB

Release : 2017-11-02

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 1108548644

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In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions about the future development and impact of science and technology on society and culture in the twentieth century. Utilising science fiction, popular science literature and the novels of the literary elite, Bowler highlights contested responses to the potential for revolutionary social change brought about by real and imagined scientific innovations. Charting the effect of social and military developments on attitudes towards innovation in Europe and America, Bowler shows how conflict between the enthusiasm of technocrats and the pessimism of their critics was presented to the public in books, magazines and exhibitions, and on the radio and television. A series of case studies reveals the impact of technologies such as radio, aviation, space exploration and genetics, exploring rivalries between innovators and the often unexpected outcome of their efforts to produce mechanisms and machines that could change the world.



Cultural Ideals of Home

Author : Deborah Chambers

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 43,31 MB

Release : 2020-03-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1351793640

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Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven, managed as an investment, and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public, state, commercial, popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry, design, exhibitions, television, social media, home mobilities and migration, smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography, the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original, historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study, this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies, cultural history, media and communication studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, cultural geography and design studies.



Model Britain

Author : David Lund

Publisher : Taylor & Francis

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 40,42 MB

Release : 2024-10-22

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 1040156878

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Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain’s built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how architects, planners, and civil engineers thought about that future by presenting a history of yesterday’s dreams of tomorrow, told through architectural models. Focused not on the making of architectural models but rather the optimistic and utopian visions they were made to communicate, this book examines the possible futures put forward by 120 models made by Thorp, the oldest and most prolific firm of architectural modelmakers in Britain, in order to reveal a century of evolving ideas about how we might live, work, relax, and move. From depictions of unbuilt city masterplans to those of seemingly ordinary shopping centres and motorways, the models featured trace a progression of the architectural, social, political, technological, and economic influences that shaped the design of Britain’s buildings, transport infrastructure, and its towns and cities during a century of relentless change. Illustrated with over 130 photographs, this book will appeal to academics and historians, as well as anyone with an interest in architectural models and the history of Britain’s twentieth century built environment.



Choice

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Page : 482 pages

File Size : 16,77 MB

Release : 2001

Category : Academic libraries

ISBN :

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The Autobiography of a Nation

Author : Becky Conekin

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 34,17 MB

Release : 2003-06-28

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780719060601

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This exceptional book is the first full-length study on the 1951 Festival of Britain. As a consciously constructed cultural and educational event, or rather series of events, the Festival provides an opportunity to see a society and a government struggling to recast national identity after the experience of World War II. Primarily an examination of how Britain and Britishness were portrayed in the 1951 Festival’s exhibitions and events, Becky E. Conekin considers the Festival’s history and historiography, its purpose, its representations of the future and the past, the role of London and the "local", the British Empire and finally its legacy.



The English Countryside Between the Wars

Author : Paul Brassley

Publisher : Boydell Press

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 38,6 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 9781843832645

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Organised into sections on society, culture, politics and the economy, and embracing subjects as diverse as women novelists and village crafts, this book argues that almost everywhere we look in the countryside between the wars there were signs of new growth and dynamic development.